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Born on July 17

1976 Luke Bryan is born Thomas Luther Bryan in Leesburg, Georgia. After attending Georgia Southern University and working on his family's peanut farm, he moves to Nashville in 2001 and releases his first album, I'll Stay Me, in 2007.

1971 Jarrett Cordes (aka DJ Minutemix of PM Dawn) is born in Jersey City, New Jersey. His stepfather is George Brown of Kool & the Gang.

1963 Regina Belle is born in Englewood, New Jersey.

1952 Pop-turned-country singer Nicolette Larson is born in Helena, Montana.

1952 Chet McCracken (drummer for The Doobie Brothers) is born in Seattle, Washington.

1950 Phoebe Snow is born in New York City.

1949 Terence "Geezer" Butler (bassist, lyricist for Black Sabbath) is born in Aston, Birmingham, England.

1949 Mike Vale (bassist for Tommy James & the Shondells) is born.

1948 Ron Asheton (guitarist, bassist for The Stooges) is born in Washington, D.C.

1947 Mick Tucker (drummer for Sweet) is born in Harlesden, North West London, England.

1947 Wolfgang Flur (of Kraftwerk) is born in Frankfurt, Germany.

1942 Gale Garnett, known for the 1964 folk hit "We'll Sing In The Sunshine," is born in Auckland, New Zealand, but will relocate to Canada by age 11.

1939 Spencer Davis (of The Spencer Davis Group) is born in Swansea, Wales.

1933 Mimi Hines, Broadway performer and comedienne (Funny Girl, The Prisoner of Second Avenue), is born in Vancouver, Canada.

1928 Jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, noted composer of music for Charles Schulz's Peanuts, is born Vincent Anthony Dellaglio in San Francisco, California.